<html>
<head>

<title>Groovy Goodness: Convert String to Boolean</title>

<script language="javascript" src="scripts/shCore.js"></script> 
<script language="javascript" src="scripts/shLegacy.js"></script> 
<script language="javascript" src="scripts/shBrushJava.js"></script> 
<script language="javascript" src="scripts/shBrushXml.js"></script> 
<script language="javascript" src="scripts/shBrushJScript.js"></script> 
<script language="javascript" src="scripts/shBrushGroovy.js"></script> 
<script language="javascript" src="scripts/shBrushPlain.js"></script> 
<script language="javascript" src="scripts/shBrushBash.js"></script> 
 
<link href="styles/reset.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="styles/shCore.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="styles/shThemeRDark.css"/>
<link href="styles/blog.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

</head>
<body>

<a href="index.html">Back to index</a>

<h3 class="post-title">Groovy Goodness: Convert String to Boolean</h3>

<div class="post">
<p>Groovy adds the <code>toBoolean()</code> method to the <code>String</code> class. If the value of the string is <em>true</em>, <em>1</em> or <em>y</em> the result is true, otherwise it is false.</p>
<pre class="brush:groovy">
assert "y".toBoolean()
assert 'TRUE'.toBoolean()
assert '  trUe  '.toBoolean()
assert " y".toBoolean()
assert "1".toBoolean()

assert ! 'other'.toBoolean()
assert ! '0'.toBoolean()
assert ! 'no'.toBoolean()
assert ! '  FalSe'.toBoolean()
</pre
</div>

<script language="javascript"> 
SyntaxHighlighter.config.bloggerMode = true;
SyntaxHighlighter.config.clipboardSwf = 'scripts/clipboard.swf';
SyntaxHighlighter.defaults['first-line'] = 0;
SyntaxHighlighter.defaults['auto-links'] = false;
SyntaxHighlighter.all();
dp.SyntaxHighlighter.HighlightAll('code');
</script>

</body>
</html>